Just upgraded a little and confused?

i7gamer

Hiya everyone, I have just spent a bit of money on my PC and I aint too happy with the results?

This is what I just bought:

Samsung pro 970 1tb (M.2)
X4 4TB Toshiba X300 (7200Rpm) drives for storage
Storm RGB XPG 2280 M.2 Heatsink with fan.

I installed them on my current rig which is:

i7 8700K
32gb ddr4 3200Mhz (XMP unlocked)
Z370 Gaming 7 board
RTX 2080 gpu.

I am not sure how many have bought these but the m.2 heatsink doesnt fit on top of the m.2 drive? the hole for the screw is way off too far away from the hole and you cant do a thing? £20 wasted.

The 970 Pro boots from cold to desktop in around 5 seconds but once I installed the x4 4tb drives it now takes 15-20 seconds? Anyone know why please?

Many thanks.

brunation

That data sheet for this says its a tool-free install. Perhaps it has another purpose?

Or perhaps not.

i7gamer

Hi Brunation, I found once the M.2 was securely fitted that the hole for the heatsink was about 2/3 mil off? thanks for the info thou.

Kesuke

It sounds silly, but make sure you have definitely installed the OS onto the SSD?  You shouldn't be experiencing startup times of >20s.

The other possibility is that when you installed windows you somehow managed to create the "System Reserved" partition(s) on one or all of the 7200RPM HDD's. This will slow down the loading process.

In the BIOS make sure the SSD is the first boot priority.

Failing that, I would take all the HDD's drives out (leaving the SSD in) and put them in individually to test if it is one or all of them causing the problem.

You could also try reinstalling/reformatting all the drives and starting from scratch again with a fresh windows install on the SSD (this time with just the SSD plugged in... THEN add the HDD's after windows is installed successfully).

i7gamer

Hiya Kesuke.

Thanks for the reply, Whenever I install and OS I always remove the other drives but its a good point thou.

I have removed the others and booted it and it boots really quick so its something to do with the storage drives?

Many thanks.

Kesuke

What happens when you just plug in 1 HDD drive at a time with the SSD? Have you tried each of them?... I wonder whether the culprit is one drive or each of the drives as this will give an indication as to what might be going on.

i7gamer

Hi Kesuke, Once again so sorry I have been AFK for a while, The SSD on its own is great, What I have noticed is as I plug one in and reboot it gets slower each drive I connect? How bizzare? so its deffo something to do with the read?

Many thanks and have a wonderfull weekend.

Kesuke

That's interesting, I was quite expecting it to be one (possibly faulty) HDD causing the problem. This makes me think that on startup the BIOS is searching each HDD for a boot sector to load from. It's probably worth having a look in your UEFI/BIOS to see if there is anything you can change (like the boot drive order/priority) that will prevent this from happening. Maybe some other users have encountered this?

i7gamer

Thanks Kesuke!

Yeah I was thinking the same? Ill look at the Bios over the weekend, I have just flashed it and updated the Bios so its not like its out of date same goes for the OS?

Cheers.

DavidG1

I also suspect the BIOS is testing each of the hard drives for a bootable hard drive during the boot sequence. Look at the boot detection order and see if you can reorder the SSD to the top and/or possibly remove the HDDs from the boot sequence altogether. Also check you have the HDDs plugged into the correct SATA ports - usually an M2 SATA drive will use up one of the available SATA ports